Seeoooul Train! =)

Wow, wow, wow! What a weekend! I must say I'm so glad I've found this awesome group of girls to travel with. Random and crazy things happen to us when we're on our own, but my God when we get together the possibilities are limitless lol.

Ok so let's start at the beginning. On Friday we had decided to meet at Busan Station at 6pm because our train was leaving at 6:45pm and we were told that we would have to board at 6:30pm. I got to the station earlier than expected, as did Kiara, so we decided to grab some food at the Lotteria (it's a Korean burger joint, like McDonald's). Puja eventually met up with us but Paulenna was still no where to be found and it was 6:17pm. That's when she called to let us know she had just gotten on the subway. The three of us thought there was no way she was going to make it on time. So we went to information to see if we could catch a later train instead. Unfortunately, the line was huge and there a was a fee and no guarantee of getting a seat on the 7pm train. With only 3 minutes left to 6:45pm we decided to leave Paulenna's ticket with the lady at the Info Booth. Puja was a genious and showed her a picture of Paulenna, and then we literally RAN to get on the train! This is when Kiara decided to stand in the doorway (we had to stall, we needed to get Paulenna on this train), literally holding up the ENTIRE train and she continued to do this despite the fact that a lady was blowing a whistle and yelling at her to get on the train! LOL. When the lady finally got to us, fuming mad by the way, I stuck my ticket in her face and asked if she could help me find my seat. HAHHA, she was sooo pissed. So she ignored me and that's when Puja starting pleading with her to hold the train for one more minute, pleading so hard in fact that she didn't hear Paulenna tell her that she had made it on the train! How did Paulenna make it on the train on time you're wondering? Well, the info lady recognized Paulenna when she got to the station, yelled out her name and together they RAN down secret passages, bypassing pylons, just to make it on the train right before it was about to take off!

Once we got to Seoul we went to straight to the bar for Kiara's friend's Will's birthday. All the while still holding all of our baggage. Luckily there are lockers in bars here and so we stashed away our things. The Monkey Bar was tons of fun, dancing and drinks in buckets till around 2am. Then off to the next bar, we were hungry though and decided to eat some mandu at a mandu vendor. Yummy! We finally made it back home around 4-5 am.

The next day we woke up bright and early and made our way to a palace. It was gorgeous, but best of all we had the opportunity to get into traditional clothing and take some pictures. While we were taking these pictures some professional photographers came by and starting snapping pictures of us! This ended up turning into a full on photo shoot that took about 30mins. I'm talking kung-fu, jumping and posed shots! The local Koreans must have thought we were important due to the garb and the photo shoot so they starting running up to us and taking pictures with us! We were like the palace mascots! lol. Then we were off to a traditional market, where I bought some cool stuff for super cheap! We went to a tea house which was really cozy and nice...not to mention relaxing! Then it was off to meet up with Kiara's friends for dinner and another trip to a bar for her other friend's birthday. At this point however, Paulenna, Puja and I were tired as hell and craving fried chicken, so we went back to Allan's place ( Kiara's friend whose apartment we were crashing at) ate some fried chicken and fell asleep. Kiara didn't make it home until 7am (she's nuts!)

On Sunday, our last day in Seoul, we took it easy. Got some breakfast and went shopping. Had dinner with the boys and then boarded our train home. This was honestly an awesome and jam packed weekend. Seoul is an amazing and large city, however it's a little too big for me and it lacks the beaches of Busan. The trip was a ton of fun but it also made me better appreciate how gorgeous and warm Busan is! I love Busan and I'm glad to be home =)